Following Blogs

When you follow a blog on WordPress.com, the new posts from that site will appear in your Reader, where you can view the latest posts published across the blogs you follow. You’ll also receive notifications of new posts by email.

How to Follow Blogs

If you have a WordPress.com account, when you are logged in, click the button that appears in the toolbar at the top of all WordPress.com sites. All new posts published on that blog will now show up in your reader. You will also receive email notifications of new posts. You can change your settings to Immediate, Daily, or Weekly delivery, or opt-out of email notifications.

If you do not have a WordPress.com account, you can follow a blog with the button that appears in the lower right-hand corner of WordPress.com sites:

After clicking on the Follow button, a dialog box will pop up asking for the email address where new blog posts should be sent.

Be sure to click on the confirmation link in the email that we send you. Until you’ve confirmed your subscription request, you won’t receive email notifications for new posts and updates.

Note: Blog administrators can hide this Follow button by adjusting their email reading settings. Here they can also customize the message that’s sent when someone follows the blog.

Change Your Email Settings

Manage Email and IM Settings for Specific Blogs

To change your email preferences on a per-blog basis, click Edit in your Reader and click the “edit” link next to the email delivery details for a specific blog you follow. Use the toggle buttons to change the frequency of email notifications for specific blogs:

How to Unfollow a blog if you're a WordPress.com user

First, make sure you’re logged in. Then visit the site you want to Unfollow, hover over the button that says Following in the toolbar at the top of the screen, and the option to Unfollow the blog will appear.

You can also click Edit List in your Reader to display the list of blogs you follow. Find the blog you no longer wish to follow, then click the grey X next to the name of the site to stop receiving notifications of new posts from that blog.

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